For some reason this Dropbox has started not working properly on puppy linux. After every boot dropbox is now asking for for your setup details..very annoying..! however, Brown_mouse has found a portable dropbox that seems ok

For slacko you can use the dropbox in the slackware repos. To enable them, open the Puppy package manager and press the configure button.
Then tick the 3 slackware repos and the slako, and press OK (don't press update!! )
then exit the PPM entirely. When you restart the PPM the slackware repos will be available.
type dropbox into the find bar and install it (Note: you only need dropbox.. there's no dependencies)

I haven't had a go with your pet as i don't use thunar. It sounds good though, that right click to get a download link , i would find very convenient. Do you know if there's a way to get it to work on rox?

I use the portable version 0.7.110 from portablelinuxapps on 525 so far so good.

Artie

I made this .pet as there was a post complaining about the version of the portable one. I used to use the portable but now use the .pet. there's really no difference. Although the pet, may update itself.

The first screen that shows up asks for the proxy configuration, the second screen asks for my account data. While I'm typing it jumps back to the 1st screen and so forth, until I entered my complete account data. Then there comes another screen asking if I want to use my former configuration. After confimation Dropbox seems to run as it should.

Thanks for the suggestion, 666philb. I uninstalled previous version of Dropbox and installed the portable version. When I start Dropbox now, it starts without going through the setup procedure each time. However, I cannot get it to automatically start at startup. Tried sym link and script in Startup folder, but neither cause Dropbox to start.

The first screen that shows up asks for the proxy configuration, the second screen asks for my account data. While I'm typing it jumps back to the 1st screen and so forth, until I entered my complete account data. Then there comes another screen asking if I want to use my former configuration. After confimation Dropbox seems to run as it should.

Huh. My installation (from a Slackware package- version 1.2.49, running Slacko 531) only does that on auto-start if I've shutdown improperly, say from a power failure (or a clumsy friend tripping over a power cable).

EDIT: It never fails, does it? Ever since I posted the above earlier this morning, the same issue has presented repeatedly on my Slacko system.

It's always after you say something or decide to put on a demo that everything goes south, isn't it?

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